Link between Shingles & MS

From the Winter 2011 NMSS Greater New England Chapter MS Connection:

"Researchers in Taiwan have reported that people who experienced an attack of the virus-triggered herpes zoster--which usually shows up as the skin rash known as shingles--were more than three times as likely to develop MS over the next year than individuals who did not have an attack."

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